10 Incredibly Useful Travel Websites

Need help planning your summer vacation? These sites cater to all kinds of travel.

With summer quickly approaching, it's time to start planning those vacations. Whether it's a cross-country road trip with the family, a romantic weekend getaway, or an intercontinental voyage, you're probably already booking your flight, hotel, rental car, and activities online with the usual suspects—Kayak, Expedia, Priceline, TripAdvisor. Maybe you're even organizing all that information into one easy-to-access place by simply forwarding your confirmation e-mails to a dedicated travel-planning website like Tripit.

What you may not know is that there's an entire world of niche travel sites that go that extra mile to help you arrange your next vacation. If you want to go camping and become one with nature but you don't actually want to sleep or go to the bathroom in the great outdoors, there's a site that can help you plan the glamorous camping experience you long for. (And yes, there's a term for it; it's called glamping.) Want to make sure the hotel you're checking into isn't infested with bed bugs? There's a website for that, too. How about skipping the hotel altogether and staying in someone's lovely vacation rental? You guessed it; there's also a website for that.

Though there are hundreds of websites out there for every kind of vacation experience, we rounded up 10 niche travel websites we think will make your vacation planning a little easier. Let us know if you have any other favorite travel websites that you use to plan your trips.